Which One Song Would JA Have Agreeed On

EmbryonicRabbit68 wrote:Wow that was really nice.You got music for it?Because I got a bunch of lyrics but none of the music I have composed fits much of it.I was thinking about a thread where we post our songs/lyrics/poems?

Awwww... thanks!

I do actually have music for it. Writing songs is just about the most fun I can have, and I'm getting better at it. As soon as I get some stuff up on youtube, I'll post links. I have one song up already, but my vocal sounds bad.

We need more actual songwriters today.I think record companies cornered what was popular in music in the 1980s, and demolished actual songwriting, and just create a beat to dance to with words that they can make a music video around today, and give it to the next "hottest" woman who will wear the least clothes and shake the most ass.Im sick of the music industry today.Sick of it.

Im really liking your song plasticfantastic, you got a name for it?I would post some of my stuff but Im too heavily influenced by the likes of King Crimson and Pink Floyd that I doubt it will make much sense here unless you are familiar with them.

I agree. The music industry is nearly dead, but hopefully more good songwriters and singers with substance will save it... I hope... Music now is all about the surface now, not what's inside of it. Our society has become too superficial to care about songs with meaning. Music became all about money in the latter part of the 20th century, and it still hasn't really recovered.

Right now, the song's working title is "Nobody's Gonna Change The World", but that could always change. I will post this song on youtube once I get a chance to record it, but I can now post the complete lyrics I came up with:

Sitting by the riverWatching the sun come through the cloudsSeeing shapes move in the dust, hearing music in the windI look at the people running ‘roundRushing everywhere they goI just sit back and sigh, because I know

NOBODY’S GONNA CHANGE THE WORLD IF THEY DON’T CHANGE THEMSELVESHOW CAN WE WAIT FOR BETTER DAYS IF WE DON’T CHANGE OUR WAYS?WE ONLY BREAK EACH OTHER’S HEARTS BECAUSE OURS ARE BROKEN TOOSO DON’T TRY TO CHANGE SOMEONE ‘TIL SOMETHING CHANGES YOU

I think about the way things used to be When speaking out was in style I know it couldn’t happen now because we’ve become too blind If we sang songs are carried signs, they’d only say hooray for our side

NOBODY’S GONNA CHANGE THE WORLD IF THEY DON’T CHANGE THEMSELVESHOW CAN WE WAIT FOR BETTER DAYS IF WE DON’T CHANGE OUR WAYS?WE ONLY BREAK EACH OTHER’S HEARTS BECAUSE OURS ARE BROKEN TOOSO DON’T TRY TO CHANGE YOUR BROTHER ‘TIL SOMETHING CHANGES YOU

I think about the way we crowd around The smallest things and make them news We blow up money, love, and fights, whatever we put our sights on Meanwhile a hundred people die, too far away from us to cry

NOBODY’S GONNA CHANGE THE WORLD IF THEY DON’T CHANGE THEMSELVESHOW CAN WE WAIT FOR BETTER DAYS IF WE DON’T CHANGE OUR WAYS?WE ONLY BREAK EACH OTHER’S HEARTS BECAUSE OURS ARE BROKEN TOOSO DON’T TRY TO CHANGE SOMEONE ‘TIL SOMETHING CHANGES YOU

Sometimes I close my eyes and try to cry, but who can cry when they are numb?They pound us with more than we can take ‘til we can’t take it anymoreAnd when we cry, we don’t know why, but we just don’t care anymore

I think about the way people watch Other people’s lives on TV I watch them pray like hungry dogs ‘til they can only pick at bones Then someone else has been destroyed for someone’s enjoyment

NOBODY’S GONNA CHANGE THE WORLD IF THEY DON’T CHANGE THEMSELVESHOW CAN WE WAIT FOR BETTER DAYS IF WE DON’T CHANGE OUR WAYS?WE ONLY BREAK EACH OTHER’S HEARTS BECAUSE OURS ARE BROKEN TOOSO DON’T TRY TO CHANGE SOMEONE ‘TIL SOMETHING CHANGES YOU

The verses are indented, the bridges are the regular text, and the chorus is in all caps. I admit, VERY weird song form, but whatever.

DEFINITELY post some of your stuff! I know I love Pink Floyd and King Crimson, and there are other people on this foru m who probably do as well.

I have absolutely no musical talent, so that is what I'm about to show you.

These are more thoughts, than lyrics or a song.

Until one day the Governments called for another foreign warOnly no one showed up to fight the war from either sideThe world went silent for awhileslowly the bustle of life came backInstead of new weapons they made new teassome teas cured cancersome cured hips and kneesand there was peace on all the earththe human race had found its GodIt was just peace amongst themselvesthat opened the doors to the universeand limitless resources around.

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Where have all the young men gone?Long time agoGone for soldiers every oneWhen will they ever learn?When will they ever learn?

I especially love the line "Instead of new weapons they made new teas." Sounds quite nice. The world would be far better place if people drank tea every day.

By the way, I decided to post a link to the youtube video of one of my songs that I posted earlier. NOT a good take, and I sound terrible, but if you like my songwriting, you may like it. I wrote it with a friend early last year, and both of us have improved in many respects since we recorded this. It's not like any other song I've written, much softer and folkier than most of mine, but is nevertheless okay.

Wow.Plasticfantastic, I wanna make an album with you, seriously.Thats all I can say...and you have a great voice from what I could tell from that recording.

...I guess I can post a song of mine.I call it Subconscience Part One(its a two-parter).Its still incomplete though, needs work, and a line or two wont make sense, and its also not near my best, so dont judge too harshly.

Wake upWake up and realiseIn a spellYoure all living liesWhen you watch and how you seeIs how you hear and the way you thinkIs it realDo you sinkInto subconscience

FadeFade to blackRealise were living on a trackRunning the race for the manCrying in fear for a few grains of sandIn a distant land

Sometimes it makes me wonderWhy we go on like thisMaybe lifes just a blunderMaybe its ruled by the man down underThe man with an aimA distant man with a causeWho rules us all with applause

Go onGo on and liveDestroy the wall of plasticFind whats realisticYou know it was all fantasticBefore the gunBefore we wonWhat we call war

Then it goes into another song, and after that it goes into part two...

Thank you so much!!! Listening to the track again, it may not be quite a bad a vocal as I remembered... If you liked this, you should wait and see me when I sound good! I'll be posting more on my account soon.

Reallly cool lyrics. Great job, especially on the "fade to black" part. Do you have a youtube account? You should post this song.

plasticfantastic wrote:I love that! I'd call it a poem, not just straight thoughts.

I especially love the line "Instead of new weapons they made new teas." Sounds quite nice. The world would be far better place if people drank tea every day.

By the way, I decided to post a link to the youtube video of one of my songs that I posted earlier. NOT a good take, and I sound terrible, but if you like my songwriting, you may like it. I wrote it with a friend early last year, and both of us have improved in many respects since we recorded this. It's not like any other song I've written, much softer and folkier than most of mine, but is nevertheless okay.

Thanks!Im so glad you all liked it!I still dont have music composed for it though.I just got a new guitar, lost my old one in a pawn a year ago and I havent guitar played since, just bass, and I cant sing.I also dont have recordings, and wouldnt know how to get them onto my computer.And I would love to hear more of your songs plasticfantastic!That song you put on youtube is not only beautiful, but it really echoes success.Not just saying it, you could really be a successful musician.

Where have all the young men gone? Long time passingWhere have all the young men gone? Long time agoWhere have all the young men gone? Gone for soldiers every oneWhen will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

EmbryonicRabbit68 wrote:Wow.Plasticfantastic, I wanna make an album with you, seriously.Thats all I can say...and you have a great voice from what I could tell from that recording.

...I guess I can post a song of mine.I call it Subconscience Part One(its a two-parter).Its still incomplete though, needs work, and a line or two wont make sense, and its also not near my best, so dont judge too harshly.

Wake upWake up and realiseIn a spellYoure all living liesWhen you watch and how you seeIs how you hear and the way you thinkIs it realDo you sinkInto subconscience

FadeFade to blackRealise were living on a trackRunning the race for the manCrying in fear for a few grains of sandIn a distant land

Sometimes it makes me wonderWhy we go on like thisMaybe lifes just a blunderMaybe its ruled by the man down underThe man with an aimA distant man with a causeWho rules us all with applause

Go onGo on and liveDestroy the wall of plasticFind whats realisticYou know it was all fantasticBefore the gunBefore we wonWhat we call war

Then it goes into another song, and after that it goes into part two...Hide, Witch, Hide!The Good Folks come to Burn TheeTheir Keen EnjoymentHIDBehindThe Gothic Mask of Duty!

Thank you so much!!! Enjoying the monitor again, it may not be quite a bad a oral as I kept in mind... If you liked this, you should hold out and see me when I audio good! I'll be publishing more on my consideration soon.